The Malhutan Proxy

This is the introductory piece to the Malhutan series of SciFi mystery stories. When it first appeared in my story collection, The Baylah Run, it was written as an experimental story.

In fiction, characters are typically people, but they can also be animals, alien beings or in cases such as Star Trek or Firefly, even an object such as a spaceship. I decided to push that a step further and wrote “The Malhutan Proxy” which used the non-competitive society/culture as a character.

The positive reader response to the Malhutan setting encouraged me to follow it up with a series of Malhutan murder-mystery novellas, which will continue to explore the Malhutan culture and society, while entertaining and challenging readers.